The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-10-07

Pnaxcs Honrx1ons's appeal to Russia
from exemption from the land ukase ms
proved fruitlee&
In Hessina, Italy, during TIE twenty
four hours ended September % there were
reported no new cases Of cholera and %
deaths: in Catania new cases and
deaths, and in Palermo Q new cases and
deatha
PosrNAsfIn-0IxRnAL IOCLDiLAN, Of
Nova Scotia, has boon unseated In the Pro
yincixl Pariiameot Tor obtaining his elee-
ton BY bribery.
ALsrrsR has been published in Ottawa
Ont, purpOrting to be from Attoruey-0en.
eral Garland, dated January q, instructing
the Alaska authorities to discharge the
British sealsrs and stop further proceed
ingA Tho letter was written by order OF
the President but its Instructions were
never carried out The matter has excited
much comment in Canada
COLONEL HuaHRs-HALL.r, the British
member Of Parliament accused OF grave
scandals, has resigned.
FIFTY persons, principally Jews, have
been convicted at Riga, Russia, Of arson
and conspiracy to defraud insurance COM
panies.
THE Krusz Zeifx.g announces that the
Sultan Of Zanzibar has allotted the whole
coast ceded to him by the agreement Of No
vember, 1866, to Englishmen, the Germans
abandoning all authority in the same for an
annual payment
IT il stated in Berlin that the Frenchman
shot on the frontier was killed on German
soil, this being proved by blood stains on
the ground. The two soldiers who &C
companled Kaufman aver that they saw
the Frenchmen trespassing on German ter
ritory and shouted to warn them. Tho
Frenchmen paid no heed to their cries and
attacked the Kaufman party. The Ger
mans then fired, all concerned being at the
time on German soil.
THERE are rumors current to the enect
that the relations between Mexico and
Guatemala are greatly strained, but moth
ing definite has TRANSFERRED to either verify
or disprove them.
THE Nacionot, Of the City Of Mexico, calls
on the Government to at once establish o
strict quarantine against every thing COM
ing from the city of New York, owing to
the arrival at that port Of vessel infected
with cholera.
A CHINESE transport was recently
wrecked on one Of the Pescadores islands.
Three hundred soldiers and the captain and
crew, with the exception Of one man, wero
drowned.
FIVE hundred tenants on the Kingston
estate in ireland have applied at the ex-
pense OF the National League to have their
rents fixed under the Land act.
The Spanish Government has decided to
reduce Cuban duties on the necessaries Of
life and articles used in industries.
TILGnMANN, formerly American vice con-
sui in Berlin, has been arrested on charges
of having defrauded American and German
tradesmen.
THE British steamer Matthew Cay has
been wrecked of Cape Finisterre and ten
persons have been drowned.
The statue of Francis Deak was unveiled
at Pesth recently in the presence Of En-
peror Francis Joseph, Archduke Joseph
and other distinguished persons.
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH opened the
Hungarian Diet on the 29th. In his address
he said that the relations of the empire
with foreign powers were friendly and
satisfactory, but that the general situation
necessitated the strengthening Of the mill
tary power.
NJ FERRY, in a speech at Epinal said that
the republic regarded tho manifesto of the
Count of Paris with contemptuous indiffer-
ence. The French people did not fear the
pretenders.
AN agreement has finally been reached
between the windowglas workers and the
factory owners on the basis Of a five per
cent. increase in wages.
JENNY LIND, the once famous songstress,
who has been dangerously Ill with paraly-
sis, is reported recovering.
Anv,Cps from, Hawaii state that ot tina
election held September 12 all the members
of the new House were elected on the plat
form Of the Reform party. supporting the
new constitution and ministry.
By the capsizing of a coach in a Wild
West show parade in Liverpool, Eng, the
other day, four of the alleged cowboys
were seriously injured.
DIR. MAMMALIAN A. LANGENBEcK, physl-
clan ln-chief Of the Prussiau army, died in
Berlin recently, aged seventy.
THE Centennial Committee of the Pres
byterian Church has received two contri-
buttons of $4,000 each for endowing the
board of relief for aged ministers, widows
and orphans.
THE failures for the third quarter Of 1887
fDun's report) number 1,53S in the United
States and 3S in Canada, against l,9j2 in
the United States for the third quarter IN
1856 and 25Sin Canada. The increase in num-
Der is trifing. But the reported liabilities Of
firms failing in the United States for the
quarter were $73, OF, 5J6, against So. 27. $50
for the same quarter last year, and in Can
ada &, $50, 529, against 81, 92l, 913 last year.
THE LATEST.
FIVE miners were killed by gas in the
Boston coliiery at Ashland, Pa, recently.
LOUIS TAsKY and his two children whom
he was trying to rescue were burned to
death in his house at Tower, Mimi, which
recently took fire.
WILLIAM A. STRONG, ex-Secretary Of
State Of Louisiana, has been sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary and fined
q, $50 for Enforcement Of State funds.
The Archbishop of Guatemala, who was
recently expelled from that country by the
President, has arrived in San Francisco.
The report of General Crook on the re-
cent trouble with Colorow and his tribe in
Colorado puts the blame on the whites.
Monte men and other gamblers were in the
habit OF swindling the Indians out Of their
horses and then having them arrested on
their SEEING back the animals. The imme-
date cause Of hostilitics was an attempt to
arrest Indians on alleged violation Of the
State Game laws.
The Presidential party reached st. Louis
on the night of the LIST, the next morning
attending divine services at the Washing
ton avenue Presbyterian Church. Stops
were made at Indianapolis and Terre